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Pulps & Movies & Comics, Oh My!

October 13, 2020 G. W. Thomas 1

Pulp magazines and movies were big at the same time making the crossover a logical idea. The consumer in the 1930s and 40s had a Read More

Yellow Peril in the SF Pulps

October 12, 2020 G. W. Thomas 1

The Pulps did not invent the idea of “The Yellow Peril”. Science Fiction had been promoting this racist fear since at least 1880 and Last Read More

Amazing Stories launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback’s Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances in Read More

Introducing…For the First Time…Robots

June 23, 2020 G. W. Thomas 2

We take robots for granted. Watching any Science Fiction show or movie, robots appear and we assume all kinds of things. Science Fiction is a Read More

Overcoming the Monster: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

May 23, 2020 G. W. Thomas 5

This piece begins…Let me tell you how I overcame a monster. A writer gets few a-ha! moments because the process of story-creating can be a Read More

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Parasite”

April 24, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

Despite the title, “The Parasite” is not a story about tape worms or anything of that nature. It is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s horror Read More

Web Pulp: Putting Weird Tales in Perspective

April 10, 2020 G. W. Thomas 1

Weird Tales stands tall as the original source of the superstars of Fantasy in the decades following the World War I. Robert E. Howard and Read More

Link: June 6, 2016: Predictions and Predilictions

April 3, 2020 G. W. Thomas 0

On Valentine’s Day of this year we had a weird moment when some smarty pointed out that the replicant Pris from Bladerunner (played by Darryl Read More